Now is the Right Time to Ramp Up Your SEO
Doesn’t it seem like everyone has an answer lately to the economic crisis? Wall Street continues to climb into record highs yet companies keep laying off employees causing a ripple effect tearing through businesses worldwide which is why now is the time to shift your internet marketing focus to search engine optimization (SEO). SEO takes time to understand and build which why now is an opportune time to really take control and understand just how important it is for your business to implement an SEO strategy into its daily business routine. With so many businesses right now ratcheting down spending and shuttering doors now is a great time for you to learn and apply SEO to your business so when things turn around your business will CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Industry News Can Create New Content
Search engine optimization and increasing visitors through content development is not always so straightforward. Sometimes it's a little sneaky. Not sneaky in a black hat kind of way, but sneaky in a good kind of way. I'm talking about using current events to draw new readers to your blog or website if it pertains to your industry or helps contribute to the goals of your website. Using current events and hot industry topics can provide a better user experience for your site visitors as well. You can use this strategy for any niche or industry. But suppose that a popular news item has everyone talking. Let's say it's your favorite celebrity and she's been arrested for drunk driving (of course you run a CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Things SEO People Should Never Do
Over the last few years the search engine optimization industry has really taken the business community by storm. Some understand the process, some don’t have a clue and many are still left scratching their heads wondering what it really is and how it can help their business. The industry has become tougher and tougher over the years because there doesn’t seem to be any industry standards in place on how to get from point A to point B making the education process challenging. There are however some things that all search engine optimization people (yes, this includes all SEO experts, consultants, firms, agencies and wanna be SEOs) should never do. This list below may seem like common sense or business 101, but I felt CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Faster Load Times Really Matters!
One of the factors that can seriously affect your on site search engine optimization efforts in a positive way is your website page load time. Interestingly, websites are rarely penalized for having slow load times, but if you increase your page load time you can often see positive results including increased page rankings that will lead to more visitors over time. Also, another reason to have faster load times on your website is user experience. Your site visitors will appreciate it for sure! This is not across the board. It depends a great deal on how much you improve your page load time. If your page already loads about average and you increase the page load speed by just a few nanoseconds, that likely CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Title Tags Can Be Changed by Google?
Here's an incentive for writing good page titles. Google reserves the right to do it for you! Of course, Google has said all along that it may use different texts for use as snippets to show users in the SERPs. They won't always use your meta description tag. Google has been known to use descriptions from the Open Directory Project also known as the DMOZ directory. In other cases, the search engine has snagged text from on page and overridden the meta description tag. Now, Google is saying it could use other tactics similar to these for displaying a page title to searchers. Here is a recent video by Google's Matt Cutts that examples this Title Tag topic: If you find that your page titles have been changed CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Google Caffeine is Launching Soon!
As I (and many other top SEO/SEM blogs) have been reporting since mid-August, the big "Google Caffeine" major algorithm update is coming very soon. According to Matt Cutts (Google's Head of Web Spam Department), the major Google Caffeine update will take place after the holiday season. To read Matt Cutt's blog post about the Google Caffeine update, please visit the following link: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-caffeine-update/ In case you are interested, Mashable did an analysis of possible changes that might be part of the update back in August here: http://mashable.com/2009/08/10/google-new-version/ Here is a very interesting video at the last Search Engine Strategies conference show with Matt Cutts about the Google Caffeine update: Also, here is more talk from around the web about what might happen: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2355684,00.asp http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10394059-93.html http://videos.webpronews.com/2009/11/11/googles-caffeine-live-at-one-data-center/ CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Will Bing’s Future Make Your Future Brighter?
Bing has announced that it's about ready to roll out its next generation of upgrades. And if you like Bing now, you'll love them tomorrow. If you're like us, you've paid attention to Bing's comeback this year as it introduced a real search engine that actually competes head-to-head with Google. The search results are stellar, the spam has been minimized and the addition of cool features like Twitter results and visual search have been most welcome. Bing promises to only get better and from the looks of things they just might deliver on that promise. To start with, the plans they have for travel search look more than promising. When I want to travel, I want to know fairly early on in my search for CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
The Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Journal is Written by SEO Expert:
Nick Stamoulis
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